• Volker Lang | Sculptor back to the homepage
  • Volker Lang | Sculptor back to the homepage
  • Vita

    Born in Augsburg, Germany in 1964, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
    A-levels, training as a church painter

    Artistic career
    1988–94
    Studies at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts
    1990–94
    German Academic Scholarship Foundation
    1995
    Vordemberge-Gildewart Award
    1996
    Sponsorship Award of the City of Augsburg
    Hamburg Working Scholarship for Visual Arts
    1997
    Working scholarship from the Kunstfonds Bonn e. V.
    1998
    Working scholarship for Venice, Centro tedesco di studi Veneziani
    1999
    Scholarship from the Emil Nolde Foundation
    2000
    Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship
    2010
    Röderhof Scholarship
    2020
    Scholarship from the art fund “Neustart Kultur”

    Teaching assignments

    2004–05
    Teaching assignment at Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel
    2009–11
    Visiting professor for crafts at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart
    2019
    Teaching assignment at HKS-Ottersberg
    2020–23
    Workshops on “Art in Public Spaces”, mould making and modelling in clay at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts